§ 1601. Trustees constitute a board and body corporate. The sole trustee or the trustees of a common school district shall constitute a board for such district and such board is hereby created a body corporate.
§ 1602. Number of trustees; determination of change. 1. At the first annual meeting next after the erection of a common school district the electors shall determine, by resolution, whether the district shall have one or three trustees; and if they resolve to have three trustees, shall elect the three for one, two and three […]
§ 1603. Property held by trustees as corporation. All property which is now vested in, or shall hereafter be transferred to the trustees of a common school district, for the use of schools in the district, shall be held by them as a corporation.
§ 1604. Powers and duties of trustees. It shall be the duty of the trustees of a common school district, and they shall have the power: 1. To call special meetings of the inhabitants of such district whenever they shall deem it necessary and proper. 2. To give notice of special, annual and adjourned meetings […]
§ 1604-a. Temporary investment of school moneys. The board of trustees of any common school district may authorize the district treasurer or other officer having custody of district moneys to invest moneys of the district in the manner provided by section eleven of the general municipal law.
§ 1605. Powers and duties of a sole trustee. The sole trustee of a common school district shall possess all the powers and be subject to all the duties, liabilities and penalties which the law imposes upon a board of three trustees.
§ 1606. Mode of exercise of trustees’ powers. 1. The powers committed by law to the trustees of a common school district must be exercised by them as a board. The board must meet for the transaction of business in accordance with notice of time and place. 2. In a board composed of three trustees, […]
§ 1607. Powers of trustees when vacancies on board exist. 1. While there is one vacancy in the office of trustee, the two trustees shall have all the powers and be subject to all the duties and liabilities of the three. And while there are two such vacancies, the trustee in office shall have all […]
§ 1608. Estimated expenses for ensuing year. 1. It shall be the duty of the trustees of each common school district to present at the annual budget hearing a detailed statement in writing of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for school purposes, specifying the several purposes and the […]
§ 1609. Annual report of trustees of certain joint districts. Where a common school district lies in two or more counties, its trustees shall file their annual report in the office of the district superintendent having jurisdiction over the schools of the town in which the principal schoolhouse of the district is situated.
§ 1610. Trustees’ annual report to district. The trustees shall render to the district, at its annual meeting, a just, full and true account in writing, of all moneys received by them respectively for the use of the district, or raised or collected by taxes, in the preceding year, and of the manner in which […]
§ 1611. Penalty for failure of trustee to account. By a wilful neglect or refusal to render such account, a trustee forfeits any unexpired term of his office, and becomes liable to the trustees for any district moneys in his hands.
§ 1612. Payment by trustee to successor. An outgoing trustee shall forthwith pay, to his successor or any other trustees of the district in office, all moneys in his hands belonging to the district.
§ 1613. Trustees’ right of action against predecessor. The trustees in office shall sue for and recover any district moneys in the hands of any former trustee, or of his personal representatives, and apply them to the use of the district.
§ 1614. Notice of non-payment of moneys apportioned. If any portion of the moneys apportioned to the district shall not be paid by the collector or treasurer of the district, upon the due requirement of the trustees, they shall forthwith notify the treasurer of the county and the commissioner of education of the fact. In […]
§ 1615. Taxation for expenses incurred by trustees. When trustees are required or authorized by law, or by a vote of their district, to incur any expenses for such district, and when any expenses incurred by them are made, by express provision of law, a charge upon such district, they may raise the amount thereof […]
§ 1616. Issuing order in excess of available funds a misdemeanor. 1. The trustees of a common school district shall not issue an order or draft upon a county treasurer, collector or treasurer of the district for the payment of the salary of a teacher unless there shall be in the hands of such county […]
§ 1618. New York State School Boards Association, Inc. The trustee, trustees or board of education of any school district may determine to expend and raise by taxation annually such sums as may be required toward defraying the actual and necessary expenses of maintaining and continuing the New York State School Boards Association, Inc., and […]
§ 1619. Advertising for bids; letting of contracts. The trustees shall let all contracts for public work and all purchase contracts to the lowest responsible bidder after advertisement for bids where so required by section one hundred three of the general municipal law.
